Bug#330078: latex points to etex, not to tex
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 08:43:38PM +0200, Frank Kьster wrote:
> Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> wrote:
>
> > Do you think that this bug is due to misbehaviour of dpkg? True,
> > 01tetex.cnf is a configuration file, but I hadn't edited it so it had
> > to be removed during the downgrading.
>
> No, dpkg won't remove unused configuration files upon upgrading, and it
> won't do so upon downgrading, either. For the upgrading case, the
> maintainer scripts has to take care - rename the file in preinst, take
> over settings, moving out of the way or whatever. For the downgrading
> case, we don't provide any support.
>
> dpkg will *only* remove a file when the package is purged.
Yes. My point was that the file was not changed by the user so
keeping it is evil. If dpkg doesn't ask me for a permission to change
the contents of an unchanged conffile then it logical to also remove
it when it does not exist in the upgraded/downgraded package any more.
Anton Zinoviev
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